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Common firecrest
Regulus ignicapilla · Family Regulidae
Regulus ignicapilla
Family Regulidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Regulidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 873,719
- Countries and territories with records
- 61
About this species
This species has 873,719 occurrence records from 61 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from France (26.8%), Spain (22.3%), the Netherlands (15.7%), Portugal (6.2%) and Sweden (5%); together they account for 76% of the total. In France, this species accounts for 0.4% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Regulus ignicapilla combines the genus name Regulus with the species epithet ignicapilla. The Warbla app catalog lists 5 species of the genus Regulus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Regulus regulus, Regulus satrapa and Regulus goodfellowi.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 6 species of the family Regulidae. This species ranks 4th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Corthylio calendula. Its record count is 32.4% of the family average (2,695,471). The family Regulidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.